There is a brilliant child locked inside every student
Marva Collins
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I wasn't a particularly brilliant student, but on the other hand, I was very active in Student U...
CESAR MILSTEIN To quote the exceptional teacher Marva Collins, "I will is more important than IQ." It is wonderful ...
RAFE ESQUITH Some prisons don't require bars to keep people locked inside. All it takes is their perception that ...
LYSA TERKEURST Every child in South Florida can dance. And every child there is amazing.
ABBY LEE MILLER Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving pe...
GUY LALIBERTE Mr. Meant-to has a friend, his name is Didn't-Do. Have you met them? They live together in a house c...
MARVA COLLINS Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.
MARVA COLLINS Success doesn't come to you you go to it.
MARVA COLLINS Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is ...
MARVA COLLINS If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.
MARVA COLLINS Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and...
MARVA COLLINS Determination and perseverance move the world; thinking that others will do it for you is a sure way...
MARVA COLLINS Success doesn't come to you
you go to it.
MARVA COLLINS The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.
MARVA COLLINS Success doesn't come to you… you go to it.
MARVA COLLINS Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.
MARVA COLLINS I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.
GEORGE CARLIN Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist
GEORGE CARLIN Life's irony;There is competition every where even right inside our homes,for a man will have to com...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
YVES CHAUVIN Do not make decision inside your sleep; when you awake you may find yourself locked inside a nightma...
PETER SAYSOMPHANE Inside every man there is a poet who died young.
STEPHAN KANFER Every person has a background, just as inside of every book, there is a story.
IRENEE HOUNGBLAME When carrying the burden of problems and stress that life seems to endlessly hurtle towards us. We g...
GARY F EVANS... To have hope in an age where hope is very scarce and hurt, jealousy and pain are more prominent is a...
GARY F EVANS... Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy.
F. MULDER They went in with a slow, methodical approach because we knew we had a violent felon inside and we k...
DARREN MOLONEY Every locked door has a key. Every problem has a solution.
MARIE LU Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Student, tell me, what is God?He is the breath inside the breath.
KABIR Inside every human being there are treasures to unlock.
MIKE HUCKABEE A man who is in control, and inside there is a frightened child - that interests me. Why? You can dr...
ALAN J. PAKULA I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that w...
SHIGERU MIYAMOTO Life is a curriculum unique to every student.
JOYCE RACHELLE As the web becomes more and more of a part of our every day lives, it would be a horrible tragedy if...
MATT MULLENWEG For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that wil...
JOHN CONNOLLY When ever a man sees his child, he is excited not because of the child,but because he sees himself i...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Every single time a child dies I have my proof that there is no God.
CARL WHITE When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog...
ERMA BOMBECK To be able to be a student here is obviously a privilege, but especially during the flagship, it's a...
JESSICA SANDERS During my school years, I was never a brilliant student, but just an average one, with only above av...
ABHIJIT NASKAR You never want any student to drop out. Our goal is for every student to graduate.
LISA STUCKEY When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine.
Pigs in Heaven
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the...
ERMA BOMBECK Never forget the child inside
ASHTON IRWIN There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsider...
SALMAN RUSHDIE Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needfu...
RACHEL CUSK Every child is born a genius.
LIBBY GELMAN-WAXNER Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.
ALBERT CAMUS I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.
GEORGE ORWELL The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked insi...
LAURA ESQUIVEL They got it wrong when they called it “the closet." This was a prison. Solitary confinement. I was...
JULIE ANNE PETERS There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding, which constitutes a new ...
ERIK ERIKSON There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.
CHINESE PROVERBS Every time a child says, I don't believe in fairies, there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead...
JAMES BARRIE There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the unive...
ALLAN BLOOM There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the unive...
ALLAN BLOOM There is a Mount Sinai for every child of God if he only knows where to find it.
KARL G. MAESER I dream for a world which is free of child labour, a world in which every child goes to school. A wo...
KAILASH SATYARTHI Mr. Disney believed everyone was still a child deep inside.
ANNETTE FUNICELLO There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept.
ANSEL ADAMS He's locked down every team's best player all year.
JASON BUMBLIS Every time a child says "I don't believe in fairies" there is a little fairy somewhere that falls do...
JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE Collins is a bald, bland Englishman who writes interchangeably uninteresting songs.
JOE QUEENAN Every child gets a good mother, but not every mother gets a good child.
AMIT KALANTRI Every schoolteacher will tell you that there is no substitute for engaged parents in the education o...
JAMES LANKFORD I suppose there's a child inside me who wants to get out, ... A little baldy child with a beard. Ha!
BRIAN JACQUES Hidden skills and knowledge are the essence of a successful small business. Unleash and leverage wha...
SARAH GERDES Sometimes I know that the Child inside must survive,Sometimes I wonder why am I still a Child.
SUJAY BARTHY Inside every Sancho Panza there's a Don Quixote struggling to get out.
P. J. O'ROURKE I know about the sweet home. I went to school with 'em boys, what became Lynyrd Skynyrd; I knew ...
PADGETT POWELL There is no set curriculum. Every child, every parent is different, but this program gives parents t...
HEATHER CASEY I'm a booster of Terry Collins .
TOMMY LASORDA Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepe...
ALAN W. WATTS Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepe...
ALAN WATTS Like many writers, I lived inside of books as a child.
ROXANE GAY He's just like another Dwayne Collins. He can score on the inside, but he may actually be better fro...
LORENZO HANDS I have been running maths clubs for children completely free. In my building in Bangalore, I conduct...
SHAKUNTALA DEVI In this life it is good to have the experience of raising a child from infant stage to adulthood,be ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Every time a child says I don't believe in fairies there is a fairy somewhere that falls down de...
JAMES M. BARRIE Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network.
MITCHELL KAPOR If there were a Nobel Prize in psychology, he would have won it. Every student of social psychology ...
FRANK BARRETT There's a molecule inside of you that is connected to everything - every person, every energy, e...
FOREST WHITAKER Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.
NANCY FRIDAY Inside every adult male is a denied little boy
NANCY FRIDAY Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be...
SAM LEVINSON Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be fo...
SAM LEVENSON Every ten seconds, somewhere on this earth, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be fo...
UNKNOWN We love each and every student.
ABBY BRUNER A lot of it has tremendous potential. Just the conversation is raising awareness. It goes far beyond...
CANDY OLSON I love human beings. I believe that there is so much to learn from every person you meet, including ...
AMISHA PATEL Every student has the ability to be a successful learner,
WARREN G. HARDING We have excellent teachers at every school. We have the same curriculum at every school. All of our ...
BETHANNE BRADSHAW Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY My eyes hurt... but there is something more... I can't stop listening to horror.... now I am going t...
DEYTH BANGER I listen to a lot of Phil Collins.
JES MACALLAN There is no more beautiful life than that of a student.
F. ALBRECHT Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women, kitchen of love, bedroom of grief, bathroom of ...
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GAIL COLLINS Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying.
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So the heavy dose of morphling administered...
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Nature in him was almost lost in art.
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SUZANNE COLLINS I turn and put my lips close to Peeta's and drop my eyelids in imitation... "He offered me sugar and...
SUZANNE COLLINS I just want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you.
SUZANNE COLLINS I pull an arrow, whip the notch into place, and am about to let it fly when I'm stopped by the sight...
SUZANNE COLLINS That if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I'm free to act as desperately as I wish.
SUZANNE COLLINS Katniss," Gale says softly.
I recognize that voice. It's the same one he uses to approach wound...
SUZANNE COLLINS Look, if you wanted to be babied you should have asked Peeta.
SUZANNE COLLINS The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the pos...
SUZANNE COLLINS Tick, tock.
SUZANNE COLLINS It must be very fragile, if a handful of berries can bring it down.
SUZANNE COLLINS I'm so sorry," I whisper. I lean forward and kiss him.
His eyelashes flutter and he looks at me...
SUZANNE COLLINS So that's who Finnick loves, I think. Not his string of fancy lovers in the Capitol. But a poor, mad...
SUZANNE COLLINS I guess this is a bad time to mention I hung a dummy and painted Seneca Crane's name on it...
SUZANNE COLLINS We star-crossed lovers of District 12, who suffered so much and enjoyed so little the rewards of our...
SUZANNE COLLINS Aim higher in case you fall short.
SUZANNE COLLINS So I only say, "So what should we do with our last few days?"
"I just want to spend every...
SUZANNE COLLINS I really can't think about kissing when I've got a rebellion to incite.
SUZANNE COLLINS I don't want you forgetting how different our circumstaces are. If you die, and I live, there's no l...
SUZANNE COLLINS The bird, the pin, the song, the berries, the watch, the cracker, the dress that burst into flames. ...
SUZANNE COLLINS I always channel my emotions into my work. That way, I don't hurt anyone but myself.
SUZANNE COLLINS So it's you and a syringe against the Capitol? See, this is why no one lets you make the plans.
SUZANNE COLLINS My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here.
SUZANNE COLLINS You know, you could live a thousand lifetimes and not deserve him.
SUZANNE COLLINS I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.
SUZANNE COLLINS Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.
SUZANNE COLLINS You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.
SUZANNE COLLINS Knowing it and seeing it are two different things.
SUZANNE COLLINS Finnick?" I say, "Maybe some pants?"
He looks down at his legs as if noticing his outfit for th...
SUZANNE COLLINS And once we reach the city, my stylist will dictate my look for the opening ceremonies tonight anywa...
SUZANNE COLLINS One more time? For the audience?" he says. His voice isn't angry. It's hollow, which is worse. Alrea...
SUZANNE COLLINS My spirit. This is a new thought. I'm not sure exactly what it means, but it suggests I'm a fighter....
SUZANNE COLLINS And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness...
SUZANNE COLLINS I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.
SUZANNE COLLINS I knew you'd kiss me."
"How?" I say. Because I didn't know myself.
"Because I am in pain,...
SUZANNE COLLINS I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I've been in the arena. How comforting the presence o...
SUZANNE COLLINS Katniss. I remember about the bread.
SUZANNE COLLINS Delly lost her temper at Peeta over how he treated you. She got very squeaky. It was like someone st...
SUZANNE COLLINS Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable.
SUZANNE COLLINS At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead.The hard thi...
SUZANNE COLLINS Fire beats roses again.
SUZANNE COLLINS In the end, the only person I truly want to comfort me is Haymitch, because he loves Peeta, too.
SUZANNE COLLINS Peeta,” I say lightly. “You said at the interview you’d had a crush on me forever. When did fo...
SUZANNE COLLINS You're alive," I whisper, pressing my palms against my cheeks, feeling the smile that's so wide it m...
SUZANNE COLLINS I just...I just miss him. And I hate being so alone.
SUZANNE COLLINS You're punishing him over and over for things that are out of his control. Now, I'm not saying you s...
SUZANNE COLLINS I had to do that. At least once.
SUZANNE COLLINS No problem," Gale replies. "I wake up ten times a night anyway."
"To make sure Katniss is still...
SUZANNE COLLINS Because I can count on my fingers the number of sunsets I have left, and I don't want to miss any of...
SUZANNE COLLINS All those months of taking it for granted that Peeta thought I was wonderful are over. Finally, he c...
SUZANNE COLLINS Stay with me.
Always.
SUZANNE COLLINS I'll tell them how I survive it. I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pl...
SUZANNE COLLINS I know what blood poisoning is, Katniss," says Peeta. "Even if my mother isn't a healer."
I'm j...
SUZANNE COLLINS No. Now, shut up and eat your pears.
SUZANNE COLLINS You have a... remarkable memory."
"I remember everything about you. You're the one who wasn't p...
SUZANNE COLLINS Really, the combination of the scabs and the ointment looks hideous. I can't help enjoying his distr...
SUZANNE COLLINS I realize only one person will be damaged beyond repair if Peeta dies. Me.
SUZANNE COLLINS Deep in the meadow, hidden far away
A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray
Forget your woes and...
SUZANNE COLLINS What about Gale?"
"He's not a bad kisser either," I say shortly.
"And it was okay with bo...
SUZANNE COLLINS Oh, Peeta, Don't make me sorry I restarted your heart.
SUZANNE COLLINS There's a chance that the old Peeta, the one who loves you, is still inside. Trying to get back to y...
SUZANNE COLLINS But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a...
SUZANNE COLLINS At a few minutes before four, Peeta turns to me again. "Your favorite colour . . . it's green?"
SUZANNE COLLINS She's not here," I tell him. Buttercup hisses again. "She's not here. You can hiss all you like. You...
SUZANNE COLLINS I raise my left arm and twist my neck down to rip off the pill on my sleeve. Instead my teeth sink i...
SUZANNE COLLINS They'll either want to kill you, kiss you, or be you.
SUZANNE COLLINS That what I need to survive is not Gale's fire, kindled with rage and hatred. I have plenty of fire ...
SUZANNE COLLINS Closing my eyes doesn't help. Fire burns brighter in the darkness.
SUZANNE COLLINS I think....you still have no idea. The effect you can have.
SUZANNE COLLINS I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there's no relief in waking.
SUZANNE COLLINS Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do. Es...
SUZANNE COLLINS Are you, are you coming to the tree?
Wear a necklace of rope, side by side with me.
Stra...
SUZANNE COLLINS Ally." Peeta says the words slowly, tasting it. "Friend. Lover. Victor. Enemy. Fiancee. Target. Mutt...
SUZANNE COLLINS I clench his hands to the point of pain. "Stay with me."
His pupils contract to pinpoints, dial...
SUZANNE COLLINS There are much worse games to play.
SUZANNE COLLINS Some walks you have to take alone.
SUZANNE COLLINS You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in y...
SUZANNE COLLINS I must have loved you a lot.
SUZANNE COLLINS Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!
SUZANNE COLLINS What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruct...
SUZANNE COLLINS You're still trying to protect me. Real or not real," he whispers.
"Real," I answer. "Because t...
SUZANNE COLLINS It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.
SUZANNE COLLINS The anguish I always feel when she's in pain wells up in my chest and threatens to register on my fa...
SUZANNE COLLINS For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.
SUZANNE COLLINS You here to finish me off, Sweetheart?
SUZANNE COLLINS I can feel Peeta press his forehead into my temple and he asks, 'So now that you've got me, what are...
SUZANNE COLLINS Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the ...
SUZANNE COLLINS And I said, 'A coal miner? Why did she want a coal miner if she could've had you?' And he said, 'Bec...
SUZANNE COLLINS I'm not prepared for Rue's family. Her parents, whose faces are still fresh with sorrow. Her fiver y...
SUZANNE COLLINS Agreed," I say. "It's going to be a long hour."
"Maybe not that long," says Peeta." what was th...
SUZANNE COLLINS Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.
SUZANNE COLLINS Why don't I just pretend I'm on camera, Plutarch?" I say.
"Yes! Perfect. One is always much bra...
SUZANNE COLLINS You'll never be able to let him go. You'll always feel wrong about being with me.
SUZANNE COLLINS Still, I hate them. But, of course, I hate almost everybody now. Myself more than anyone.
SUZANNE COLLINS It's meant to be pretty," whispers Octavia, and I can see the tears threatening to spill over her la...
SUZANNE COLLINS While I was waiting...I ate your lunch.
SUZANNE COLLINS Katniss: I guess all those hours decorating cakes paid off.
Peeta: Yes, frosting. The final def...
SUZANNE COLLINS Katniss: I’m coming back into focus when Caesar asks him if he has a girlfriend back home.
P...
SUZANNE COLLINS Yeah, about that,” says Peeta, entwining his fingers in mine. “Don’t try something like that a...
SUZANNE COLLINS The raw hunk of meat that used to be my enemy makes a sound, and I know where the mouth is. And I th...
SUZANNE COLLINS Let the Seventy-forth Hunger Games begin, Cato, I think. Let them begin for real.
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SUZANNE COLLINS The mayor finishes the dreary Treaty of Treason and motions for Peeta and me to shake hands. His are...
SUZANNE COLLINS She reaches in, digs her hand deep into the ball, and pulls out a slip of paper. The crowd draws in ...
SUZANNE COLLINS When I break into the clearing, she's on the ground, hopelessly entangled in a net. She just has the...
SUZANNE COLLINS But I feel as if I did know Rue, and she'll always be with me. Everything beautiful brings her to mi...
SUZANNE COLLINS Peeta's awake already, sitting on the side of the bed, looking bewildered as the trio of doctors rea...
SUZANNE COLLINS He’s dozed off again, but I kiss him awake, which seems to startle him. Then he smiles as if he’...
SUZANNE COLLINS But Mockingjays were never a weapon," said Madge. "They’re just songbirds. Right?"
"Yea...
SUZANNE COLLINS Peeta, you were supposed to wake me after a couple of hours," I say.
"For what? Nothing's...
SUZANNE COLLINS It's impossible to be the Mockingjay. Impossible to complete even this one sentence. Because now I k...
SUZANNE COLLINS If Peeta and I were both to die, or they thought we were....My fingers fumble with the pouch on my b...
SUZANNE COLLINS Y de repente es cómo si no existiera nadie más en el mundo que estas dos personas que atraviesan e...
SUZANNE COLLINS Don't you see, Katniss, this will decide things. One way or the other. By the end of the day, they'l...
SUZANNE COLLINS Lucky thing were allies, right?
-Finnick Odair
SUZANNE COLLINS I can hear him weeping but I don't care. They probably won't even bother to question her, she's so f...
SUZANNE COLLINS I wish they were all dead and we were, too. It would be best."
Well, there's no good resp...
SUZANNE COLLINS Poor Finnick. Is this the first time in your life you haven't looked pretty?" I say.
"It must b...
SUZANNE COLLINS Did you love Annie right away, Finnick?" I ask. "No." A long time passes before he adds, "She crept ...
SUZANNE COLLINS I don't know what it is with Finnick and bread, but he seems obsessed with handling it.
SUZANNE COLLINS Do you find this...distracting?
SUZANNE COLLINS Plutarch rushes to reassure me. "Oh, no, Katniss. Not your wedding. Finnick and Annie's. All you nee...
SUZANNE COLLINS Want a sugar cube?" he asks in his old seductive voice.
SUZANNE COLLINS And if we burn, you burn with us.
SUZANNE COLLINS My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.
WILKIE COLLINS Destroying things is much easier than making them.
SUZANNE COLLINS Even if times got bad, he would never again deny himself the possibility that the future might be ha...
SUZANNE COLLINS If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it.
SUZANNE COLLINS And don't you let your guard down for a second because you think anything's inevitable.
SUZANNE COLLINS